All Articles tagged trials

• Justice Commentaries
  May 11, 2021 EDT
  Criminal Jury Instructions: A Case Study
  Michael D. Cicchini

  This Article explores the importance of jury instructions and provides a legal strategy to modify the Wisconsin jury instructions, recently revealed to have been drafted by University of Wisconsin-Madison employees.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  THE TRIALS OF INDIGENT DEFENSE: TYPE OF COUNSEL AND CASE OUTCOMES IN FELONY JURY TRIALS
  Erin York Cornwell

  This article outlines how disparities in resources and differences in courtroom roles may put public defenders at a distinct disadvantage in cases adjudicated through trial.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  THE TRIALS OF INDIGENT DEFENSE: TYPE OF COUNSEL AND CASE OUTCOMES IN FELONY JURY TRIALS
  Erin York Cornwell

  This article outlines how disparities in resources and differences in courtroom roles may put public defenders at a distinct disadvantage in cases adjudicated through trial.

• Justice Commentaries
  October 16, 2014 EDT
  TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN STYLE PLEA BARGAIN
  Ken Strutin

  Through the prism of recent Supreme Court plea bargaining decisions this Article examines their implications for the competing goals of truth versus process.

• Justice Commentaries
  June 11, 2013 EDT
  THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE, NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE, AND AN “UNOFFICIAL” EXCEPTION TO DOUBLE JEOPARDY: A COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
  Steven V. DeBraccio

  In the absence of an express statute or constitutional provision permitting re-trials for acquitted defendants, could prosecutors use perjury prosecutions and subsequent civil and forfeiture proceedings used against defendants?

• General
  January 01, 2011 EDT
  THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE HEALTHY: HOW SPINDLE-CHROMOSOMAL COMPLEX TRANSFER CAN IMPROVE THE FUTURE
  Nicole Baffi

  This paper argues that new biomedical technology, whose purpose is to prevent children from suffering from disease, should not be unduly hindered by regulations or restrictions on human clinical trials.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  EXTRAORDINARY WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS, ORDINARY ERRORS—WHY MEASUREMENT MATTERS
  Amy Bach

  Ms. Bach's symposium remarks.